Melody Smith

Silverchair and American Medical Association Working Together

By Melody Smith | May 29, 2012

The American Medical Association (AMA) has introduced the semantic online hosting platform, JAMA Network. This comes from Silverchair Information Systems and is built on the semantic SCM6– a real-world application of semantic theory.

Giving Credit

By Melody Smith | May 28, 2012

While watching the end of a movie last night to see where exactly it was filmed, I paid attention to the credits. Coming from a publishing perspective, I tried matching what they list to what we capture about the author, researcher, and creator in a bibliographic citation. What are the matches? The film lists the animation team, the animal handlers, the costume designers, the makeup artists, the photographers, the accounting team, and on and on and on. There are hundreds of people behind the scenes, and they are all listed in the credits. What do we list for a team of 3000 researchers working on a big data project? We cite a few authors with a spare affiliation line and an acknowledgement to the funders. What about the rest of the contributors? Are there others that should be cited?

The Costs Continue to Rise

By Melody Smith | May 28, 2012

The debate surrounding an ICD-10 delay continues after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) indicated its intention to push the deadline back one year to Oct 1., 2014. While many providers are struggling to get a handle on ICD-10, some have made strides in the implementation process and could be hurt financially by the delay.

ClinicalKey Released To Healthcare Market

By Melody Smith | May 28, 2012

Elsevier has released ClinicalKey, their clinical insight engine powered by Smart Content. This new release maps the largest collection of clinical resources, covering every medical and surgical specialty, to a proprietary medical taxonomy. ClinicalKey aims to provide more clinically relevant answers than conventional search engines, saving doctors’ time and informing decisions that can improve outcomes.

Personal Semantic Web

By Melody Smith | May 25, 2012

A new online application has moved from private to public beta and it allows you to build and view a website with massive amounts of data arranged in an easily understandable manner. Silk is an online application that tries to tap into the “semantic” Web by collecting and displaying information from the Internet, from your own documents, and from other sources. The idea is to let people select “the data they want from the mass of information available, and to view and arrange it in ways that make sense to them.”

SharePoint Integration Continues to Grow in Popularity

By Melody Smith | May 25, 2012

Metalogix Software has released Content Manager, a solution that makes it faster and more efficient to manage content in Microsoft SharePoint 2010. The new solution enhances SharePoint with the ability to make bulk edits to metadata and a ribbon that makes it easier for users to have access to advanced features such as taxonomy.

Breeding Procrastination

By Melody Smith | May 25, 2012

In a recent public comment letter, the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) chided the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) about extending the compliance deadline to Oct. 1, 2014 for adoption of the International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision code sets. As the AHIMA ruefully points out, many members of the healthcare community squandered the three years HHS gave them for the ICD-10 upgrade.

Delay or Not?

By Melody Smith | May 24, 2012

AHIMA is once again speaking against the ICD-10 deadline delay. The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) disagree. They called the one-year delay an appropriate “middle ground” for all stakeholders while urging HHS to remain committed to the new code sets.

Historical Information

By Melody Smith | May 23, 2012

Sometimes we stumble across a website that intrigues us and that we want to share with you. This is one of those times. Jeremy Norman’s From Cave Paintings to the Internet – Chronological and Thematic Studies on the History of Information and Media is full of interesting data presented in a way that is close to our hearts. You can search by timeline, by topic, and even by category. The website is arranged so that you can approach the history of information from many different viewpoints.

New Semantic Partnership

By Melody Smith | May 23, 2012

Ryma Technology Solutions and Coginov have announced a partnership that will see Coginov’s application programming interface (API) made available as an add-on for Ryma’s product management software solution, FeaturePlan.